To the Editor:
Regarding “Efficiency and Academic Freedom Clash in a Fight at CUNY” (The Chronicle, March 25), which concerns the City University of New York’s much-needed “Pathways” reform of transfer policies and general-education requirements, please note that, contrary to Barbara Bowen’s claim, Harvard University does offer introductory science courses without labs. In fact, it is possible for nonscience majors at Harvard to satisfy all of their general-education science requirements—two courses, the same number that CUNY requires—without taking a lab. For example, Harvard students can satisfy their requirements by taking “The Unity of Science: From the Big Bang to the Brontosaurus and Beyond” and “Nutrition and Global Health,” neither of which requires a lab. Alternatively, both CUNY and Harvard students can satisfy their general-education science requirements by taking science courses with labs, if they choose to do so.
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